Ma Petite Histoire

by Shazelle Goulet

My first big girl bike was painted pink with a mint green trim. I left it outside during summer thunderstorms, and rust formed where the paint had been scratched and nicked. I told my best friend, who lived down the street, that those rusty dents were from bullets. That, really, I came from a war torn parish south of Paris. We were refugees. She believed me.

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Shazelle Goulet received her MFA from California College of the Arts. She's originally from Clearwater, Florida and until the age of 9, thought "mermaid" was a perfectly acceptable profession. She currently lives in San Francisco.